Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE PRODUCTS -- Overview -- A BIT of Insurance -- The Convergence of the Terrorism Insurance and Political Risk Insurance Markets for Emerging Market Risk: Why It Is Necessary and How It Will Come About -- Commentary -- Commentary -- Discussion of New Perspectives on Political Risk Insurance Products -- Part Two PRIVATE POWER PROJECTS IN EMERGING MARKETS: NEW MODELS FOR FINANCING AND RISK MANAGEMENT -- Overview -- Managing International Political Risk: Lessons from the Power Sector -- AES's Experience in Developing Countries -- Commentary -- Discussion of Private Power Projects in Emerging Markets: New Models for Financing and Risk Management -- Part Three THE CHALLENGE OF MANAGING REGULATORY RISK -- Overview -- Regulatory Takings Under International Law: A Brief Legal and Practical Guide -- Are You in Good Hands with Your Insurance Company? Regulatory Expropriation and Political Risk Insurance Policies -- A Sword in a Stone: Problems (and a Few Proposed Solutions) Regarding Political Risk Insurance Coverage of Regulatory Takings -- Discussion of the Challenge of Managing Regulatory Risk -- Part Four THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN 2010 -- Overview -- Past and Future Predictions for the Political Risk Insurance Industry -- How Will the Political Risk Insurance Industry Evolve in the Next Three to Five Years? -- Looking Ahead: Will Political Risk Insurance Continue to Play a Meaningful Role in the Global Investment and Trade Environment? -- The New Scramble for Commodities: Medium-Term Trends in Political Risk Insurance -- Einstein and Cinderella -- Discussion of the International Political Risk Insurance Industry in 2010 -- Appendixes -- I Biographies of Authors -- II Previous Volumes in This Series.

III More about MIGA -- Boxes -- 1 General Property Insurance Market War Exclusion -- 2 Legal Definition of "Rebellion" -- 3 T3 Act of Terrorism or Sabotage -- 4 T3 War Risks Exclusion -- Figures -- 1 Lloyd's Premium Income for Investment Insurance by Year of Account (Risk Code PR) -- 2 Ten-Year Overview of Lloyd's Premium Income for Stand-Alone Political Violence (Risk Codes TO WL TE TU 6T) -- 3 Incurred of Loss Ratios for Lloyd's Political Violence Risk Codes by Year of Account -- 4 Contract Performance versus Project Performance -- Tables -- Annex 1 Project Details -- 1 OPIC Claims History.

This volume is the latest in a series based on the MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management, with contributions from experts from the international investment, finance, insurance, and legal fields. Highlights include a treatment of regulatory risk in emerging markets by three distinguished lawyers, a proposal for a new type of war risk insurance coverage, the examination of the risk management needs of the international power sector from both legal and user perspectives, and a discussion of the future of the international investment insurance industry by leading private and public sector industry representatives.

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